Can I boot from a small USB stick first?

I want to boot from a small USB stick (less than 500MB), then install the openSUSE 13.1-DVD.iso from a local hard drive, how to do that?

I have installed Windows 7, but seems it has no that 100MB boot partition so always get an error message when I try to modify BCD by bcdedit. I don’t need the USB containing almost the installing data just need it to boot and to select the path of openSUSE DVD which containing the real installation data and let it do the installation.

Maybe a the remote install version might fit. The dowload page is down for maintenance at the moment so I can’t check the size. You will need Internet during the install so I recommend hard wired ther then wireless. Wireless might work but then it might not depending on hardware.

Not got a clue what you are doing with Windows. You can install Windows in a single partition if you have a real Windows install disk and not an image disk. So simple do not understand your post

It’s 284 MB for the 64bit version, the 32bit version is even less (247MB).
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/13.1/iso/

You will need Internet during the install so I recommend hard wired ther then wireless. Wireless might work but then it might not depending on hardware.

It should be possible even without an Internet connection.
The boot menu allows to specify the source for installation by pressing F4. You can choose CD-ROM and Hard disk there as well, not only a network source.
I’m not sure at the moment whether you would be able to specify the DVD-ISO directly, but you can specify a folder on your hard disk.
So extract all files/directories from the DVD-ISO to your hard disk and it should work.

See also SDB:Network installation - openSUSE Wiki

On 2014-07-12 20:16, wolfi323 wrote:

> I’m not sure at the moment whether you would be able to specify the
> DVD-ISO directly, but you can specify a folder on your hard disk.
> So extract all files/directories from the DVD-ISO to your hard disk and
> it should work.

But the partition holding the ISO can not be modified during install.


Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)

The DVD is bootable. You need only burn to a virgin DVD disk, stick it in the DVD tray, and reboot. You needn’t boot from the USB.

I pressed F4 in the boot menu then it required the device and the directory, I input /dev/sda{*} for the device name and / for the directory where my DVD image located in NTFS partition, then enter then enter, but 20 seconds later an error message says couldn’t find the openSUSE repositories, what is the problem?

On 2014-07-13 13:26, geetboy wrote:
>
> wolfi323;2653658 Wrote:

>> It should be possible even without an Internet connection.
>> The boot menu allows to specify the source for installation by pressing
>> F4. You can choose CD-ROM and Hard disk there as well, not only a
>> network source.
>> I’m not sure at the moment whether you would be able to specify the
>> DVD-ISO directly, but you can specify a folder on your hard disk.
>> So extract all files/directories from the DVD-ISO to your hard disk and
>> it should work.
>>
>> See also https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Network_installation
>
> I pressed F4 in the boot menu then it required the device and the
> directory, I input /dev/sda{*} for the device name and / for the
> directory where my DVD image located in NTFS partition, then enter then
> enter, but 20 seconds later an error message says couldn’t find the
> openSUSE repositories, what is the problem?

Two possibilities I can think of:

  1. That the install CD can not mount ntfs partitions.
  2. That it expects a directory of files, not an iso image.


Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)

I had installed openSUE 11.4 before and it did support install from DVD image stored in NTFS partition.

I release the files in ISO to a folder but still no use.

Did I need to rename the ISO or the folder?

any idea?

No, you should not at all rename the folder.

Copy the ISO’s directory structure as it is to your hard disk or any folder there, and then specify that folder if applicable.

Please note that I have not tried this in years (and back then I didn’t download the DVD-ISO, but the full repository directly via ftp), so I am not sure it will work with the current Netinstall ISO.
And I do not want to download the whole DVD now just to try. :wink:

On 2014-07-14 16:46, wolfi323 wrote:

> Please note that I have not tried this in years (and back then I didn’t
> download the DVD-ISO, but the full repository directly via ftp), so I am
> not sure it will work with the current Netinstall ISO.
> And I do not want to download the whole DVD now just to try. :wink:

I have the vague recolection of reading about some problem, but I don’t
remember the details.

I know that adding the iso image as repository in an installed 13.1
gets a complain, but works. It is on a different menu entry. I’m using
that method.


Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)